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Police involved in ongoing search for missing Kansas City college student

“It’s almost like she vanished,” says an officer

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Updated: 7:52 PM PST Jan 18, 2017

Police involved in ongoing search for missing Kansas City college student

“It’s almost like she vanished,” says an officer

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Updated: 7:52 PM PST Jan 18, 2017

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WEBVTT LOOKING FOR ANSWERS.>> LIVE WHERE TONY WAS LASTSEEN.>> ON THE BUSIEST STREET.AT BURLINGTON WHICH TERMS --TURNS INTO NORTH OAK.PULLING HER OVER FOR A MINORTRAFFIC INFRACTION SHORTLY AFTER4:00 IN THE MORNING.>> ROCK SEE TOWNSEND IS BESIDEHERSELF.BEST FRIENDS WITH TONY SINCEMIDDLE SCHOOL IN WICHITA.SHE HAS NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED TOHER.>> IT'S NOT COMPLETELY OUT OFTHE ORDINARY TO COME HOME AT6:00 A.M. OR 7 A.M. THAT THATDAY, SHE DIDN'T AND WE KNEWSOMETHING WAS WRONG RIGHT AWAY.>> SHE LEFT HER SERVING JOB ATFOUR IN THE MORNING ON SUNDAY.HER MISSING FIRE IS ON THE FRONTDOOR.ABOUT 20 MINUTES AFTER SHE LEFTWORK, SHE WAS PULLED OVER.>> SHE STATED SHE WAS ALMOST OUTOF GAS SO THE OFFICER TOLD HERTHERE'S A GAS STATION RIGHTTHERE AND A WARNING FOR THEVIOLATION AND WATCHED HER GO TOTHE QUICK TRIP.>> TONY TEXTED ROCK SEE THAT SHEHAD BEEN PULLED OVER IN HER 2014BLACK FORD FOCUS BUT ROCKYDIDN'T RESPOND UNTIL SHE WOKE UPHOURS LATER.BY THEN, SHE WASN'T RESPONDINGTO ANYONE.>> IT IS A MUST LIKE SHEVANISHED.>> HOPING SOMEBODY KNOWS

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Updated: 7:52 PM PST Jan 18, 2017

​ KANSAS CITY, Mo. —

A parent’s plea continues Wednesday as the search continues for missing University of Missouri- Kansas City student Toni Anderson.

Roxy Townsend is beside herself. She’s been best friends with Toni since middle school – she has no idea what’s happened to her friend.

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“It’s not completely out of the ordinary for her to come home at 6 or 7 a.m.,” said Townsend, “But that day she didn’t. We pretty much knew something was wrong right away.”

Toni left her serving job at Chrome Adult Entertainment around 4 in the morning Sunday – about 20 minutes later she was pulled over in North Kansas City.

“She stated to the officer that she was almost out of gas ... there’s a QT real close,” said Officer Darin Snapp, a spokesman with the Kansas City Police Department. “The officer gave her a warning and watched her go to QT, and that’s the last place that we have seen her.”

That QuikTrip near 26th and Burlington is where police know Toni stopped at an ATM.

Minutes later, Toni texted Roxy that she’d been pulled over in her 2014 black Ford Focus. But Roxy didn’t respond until she woke up hours later. By then, Toni wasn’t responding to anyone.

“It’s almost like she vanished,” said Officer Snapp.

Police are still trying to figure out why Toni was even in North Kansas City. She was supposed to be meeting up with friends several miles away.

“We’re talking to friends, trying to find out exactly why she was in that area,” said Snapp. “She just got off work and she was going to another place to meet some friends and never showed up.”

Friends say Toni has a live-in boyfriend and lots of good things going on in her life.

She’s a communications major who loves writing music reviews. They say she’s not the type of person who would take off and frighten friends and family.

“She couldn’t possibly see that and still choose to stay missing,” said Townsend. “So wherever she is, it’s not somewhere she wants to be.”

Police are hoping someone knows something about Toni or her car. Officers are working with many area jurisdictions in the search using license plate readers. So far – no hits have come back.

“Those license plate readers shoot all the time so when officers are driving through parking lots, it’ll pick up those,” said Officer Snapp. “We don’t have anything yet so we’re thinking she might be out of the area.”